Download or read book History of the Illinois Central Railroad to 1870 (Classic Reprint) written by Howard Gray Brownson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Illinois Central Railroad to 1870 It has been said that a history of the Illinois Central Rail road is a history of Illinois. The project for a railroad through the center of Illinois was one of the first propositions for internal improvement in the West. Its construction between 1851 and 1857 opened up to settlers the rich interior counties of the state; and, when completed, it connected these agricultural counties with the remainder of the country, and made Illinois an essen tial part of the economic system of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.